The Endless Search, acclaimed poet David Ray creates a harrowing narrative that weaves its way through decades of searching: for a father, for a home, for the approval and love he is so often denied. He confronts our society as one that generates abusers through economic hardship, endemic racism, sexism and homophobia, and then empowers those same abusers, ignoring the victims’ screams for help, encouraging and enforcing their silence. Ray's personal narrative carries with it important messages about the realities of our world, but his story is one of survival. In the end, readers will be grateful as well as astonished that a man could weather so much.

Poet and essayist David Ray is the author or editor of twenty-three books on a variety of presses including Copper Canyon, Wesleyan University Press, University of Chicago Press, and St. Martin’s Press. His is the Founding Editor of New Letters, and has won many prizes, including the William Carlos Williams Award (the only poet to have done so twice), and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Ray has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, and numerous other publications.